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They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine.… — Jennifer Weiner
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.… — Denis Johnson
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work… — Noel Coward
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession… — Agatha Christie
Ester asked why people are sad. "Thatâ€™s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main… — Paulo Coelho
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so… — John Green
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than oneâ€™s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible? — Richard Matheson
These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes… — Dan Brown
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and… — John Steinbeck
It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free,… — Cory Doctorow
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That… — Oscar Wilde
We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth,… — Brigham Young
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could… — Joseph Conrad
By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! — Michel de Montaigne
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different… — Jane Yolen

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